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As James Comey makes the media rounds to promote his new book, there are some questions that the mainstream media ask the former FBI director, according to Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel.
On Monday and Tuesday, Strassel tweeted out 24 questions Comey should be asked in his interviews. She joined Laura Ingraham Tuesday night to run down some of the most pressing questions.
She said one of the top questions Comey needs to answer is: Did the FBI do any due diligence on Fusion GPS, the firm that hired former British counterintelligence agent Christoper Steele to compile the infamous anti-Trump dossier?
3)Did you know Mr. Steele had been hired by Fusion GPS? Did FBI do any due diligence on Fusion, and discover its long record of being hired to dirty the reputations of its clients' political foes? If not, why not?
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 16, 2018
"This is an organization that exists to smear the reputations of political opponents," Strassel said. "Did you not care that it was the Clinton campaign and the DNC that had paid for what is essentially opposition research?"
4)You say you knew dossier was funded by a "Democrat-aligned" group but you never knew which one. Why on earth not? Did FBI truly not care where info came from? Who was paying for it? Doesn't this go direct to source credibility?
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 16, 2018
She said she would also like to see Comey pressed on why he didn't inform President Trump that the dossier was funded by his political opponents.
Strassel said Comey should also answer questions about Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the FBI officials caught sending anti-Trump text messages during the 2016 presidential election.
"Is this the kind of behavior that the FBI thinks is appropriate? Is it common behavior to have people sending messages like this? Does it concern you about the political bias?" she asked.
2) You've surely now read the Strzok-Page texts. Is this appropriate FBI behavior? Is this common FBI behavior? Can or how should the American public have confidence in a bureau that employs senior players with that behave in such a way?
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 17, 2018
She added that the Strzok-Page texts raise questions about the integrity of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the Russia probe.
4)Given the duo's senior roles, and given clear text evidence that politics played a role in decisions (ie, how much manpower to use on Clinton investigation, given she might be "next president") how do reassure public of the integrity of either the Clinton or Trump probes?
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 17, 2018
Finally, she said Comey should be asked if former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe should be prosecuted for leaking to the press information related to the Clinton probe and then lying about it.
7)You have strong views on lying. The IG has now said McCabe lied, at least three times under oath. Should he be prosecuted? If not, how do you explain the double standard of FBI's treatment of average citizens, and treatment of its own?
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 17, 2018
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